Through a new look at how political, historical, and art
documentaries engage with photographic images, objects, and
archives, A Medium Seen Otherwise argues that film allows us to
better understand what people do with analog and digital
photographs as material objects that enable social and political
relations through multisensory experience. Moreover, as a
time-based medium with sound, film can bring the event of
photography into fuller view, demonstrating how no single
participant in it (photographer, subject, camera, photograph, or
viewer) has sovereignty over its affect, meaning, or value. The
book thus explores the ways in which the innovative incorporation
of photography into documentary film permits us to see both of
these media otherwise. Photographs, whether professional or
vernacular, are conventionally understood to furnish documentaries
with indexical evidence and visual illustration of history, yet the
spatio-temporal and aural dimensions of film permit documentaries
to illuminate photography's wider capacities beyond the merely
representational. Combining new critical perspectives on well-known
documentary filmmakers and photographers (Agnès Varda, Rithy Panh,
Edward Burtynsky, Malick Sidibé, Vivian Maier, JR, Ken Burns,
Errol Morris, and Akram Zaatari) with analyses of lesser known, but
important, documentaries, author Roger Hallas investigates a global
range of documentary and vernacular photographic contexts,
including Lebanon, Palestine, Mali, Congo, Cambodia, Ireland,
Spain, Mexico, Chile, Canada, and the US. While authorship and
representation remain common rhetorical frameworks for
documentaries about photography, A Medium Seen Otherwise offers a
compelling account of how the intermediality between documentary
film and photography can posit far more expansive conceptions of
both media. A companion website shows clips of films discussed in
the book.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Roger Hallas
(Associate Professor of English)
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
280 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-005776-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-19-005776-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780190057763 |
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